Sorry to dredge up such an old thread, but since it is probably among the most interesting threads, I figured it was right to do so.

I am thinking in terms of Georgia, and the Black Sea environment, and the lack of suitable ways to defend themselves from Russia's superior fleet strength. It occurred to me that this sort of defensive strategy might make sense, especially if properly implemented. A suitable SOSUS type network of sensors, linked to small launch structures (AUVs might actually make sense, with the ability to simply swim out, sit for a few weeks at a time, then return for maintenance) would form part of this. This could be supplemented, however, by shore based defences, especially the Italian Otomat and Milas. The Otomat has excellent range, and a suitable salvo of them could be pretty lethal, even to well defended ships. The Milas, on the other hand, adds the ability to fire off a torpedo carrying missile, either for use against submarines, or possibly to add to the threat to surface ships (I'm not sure of the effectiveness of lightweight torpedoes against surface ships, but I suspect they could still do a lot of damage. 

Overall, the system could combine the sensor network discussed previously, with a sort of heavyweight version of CAPTOR (i.e. bigger, with an encapsulated Mk48 ADCAP or similar), and shore based missiles. Implementing this would be expensive, but it would make any naval action against Georgia a lot harder... They could probably use something along the lines of the Swedish Sea Dagger mini subs for laying the weapons, without needing to attract attention by using surface ships or aircraft. Best of all, it may be possible to use the underwater passive sensor network for targetting purposes, to allow shore based anti-ship missiles to fire without needing to have an aircraft providing targetting...

Thoughts?